“The Fifth Estate” comes out today. The film is based on the real life events surrounding the website Wikileaks and the impact that document leaks had on the government, the press, and beyond. And, Google made investors happy yesterday with its quarterly earnings report. It turns out the online advertising business is still booming. Google’s net income was up nearly $800 million over the same quarter last year.

The next big tech company to release its earnings this week is Google. The company will report this afternoon. And the update for investors is all about Google’s bread and butter — advertising. Businesses still buy ads based on keywords like “teapot” or “crossbow,” but now, instead of bidding on one platform at a time, Google has been offering multiple platforms at once — tablets, phones, and PCs. So how’s that working out for them?

Alton Brown, chef and host of the Food Network’s “Good Eats,” talks to Marketplace Tech about the cooking technologies he’s working on in his test kitchen, and the food tech we need to start 3-D printing quiches. Plus, a look at how the government uses data to track down the uninsured and get them signed up.

One of the best pieces of toy technology ever imagined is the decoder ring. Well what about having a kind of decoder ring for the world’s transportation systems? As part of our recent visit to Boston we caught up with Chris Benson. Benson is working on just that, along with help from student inventors Edward Tiong and Olivia Seow in Singapore. Their product is called the Sesame Ring and its testing ground is Boston’s subway system, the T. 

Whether in the art world or in the email world, fakes can create big problems. So what about in the tech world of startups and acquisitions? The fortune of a small Swedish biometrics company changed dramatically recently, all thanks to a single document that wasn’t what it said it was. And we take a look at the future of robot coworkers.

Marketplace Tech is at MIT this week to visit the emerging technology conference EmTech. There are serious academics here doing big things. But new innovations and new technology also offer new challenges. Funding that must be found, new parts that must be built and more.

We’re visiting MIT in Boston this week as part of the Emerging Tech conference put on by The MIT Technology Review. One of the buildings we wanted to visit at MIT is the McNair Building. It holds MIT’s Man Vehicle Laboratory. There, Professor Larry Young and his others are working on an important tech innovation. But it’s far from fancy software or the latest startup. It’s a long term mission to protect our brains. Whether you’re on the ski slope, on a bike or headed to Mars.

We’ve been covering news about underground online market Silk Road since federal agents arrested the site’s alleged founder in San Francisco last week. Today there’s a bail hearing for Ross Ulbricht. Authorities say he masterminded the so-called eBay of drugs. Just using Silk Road, though, was a tricky process. Buyers and sellers had to deal in digital currency and use a kind of identity protection software called Tor.

The convoluted world of personal online banking often feels designed squeeze us instead of free us. Simple bills itself as a tech-y solution to many of the problems that plague online banking consumers. Along with no overdraft fees and free checks, the company also promises to help you leverage the bank’s data on your own behavior to help with saving and spending. But can a banking startup actually make us behave differently?